Beer Advent Calendar Returns
They said it couldn’t (or shouldn’t) happen, but it has. Five years after putting it out to pasture, our beer...
1st December 2020
Tagged as: Food and Drink
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The Kebabs of the Peacock Angel
This is an extract from the new book I’ve been working on, set in a pub in a pretty, shabby,...15th May 2020
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Virtual inanity at the Zoom Inn
Armed with laptop camera and under-stair keg, CBTR beer correspondent Ben McCormick attempts to emulate the pub. Some weeks ago,...18th April 2020
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The Forager's Calendar
John Wright's The Forager's Calendar: A Seasonal Guide to Nature's Wild Harvest is published today by Profile Books. Read an...1st April 2019
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Shadows & Reflections: Ben McCormick
Shadows and Reflections: the annual collection of postings in which our contributors and friends consider the events that’ve shaped the...14th January 2019
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The Edible City
The Edible City: A Year of Wild Food by John Rensten (Pan Macmillan, hardback, 293 pages. Out now.) Review by...8th December 2016
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Pint by the River: New year, new beer
It seems that January rather ran away with us. We've been overwhelmed with high-calibre content of late: that in mind,...13th February 2016
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Words on wort – diary of a fledgling homebrewer
By Ben McCormick 3: Malt of the earth If you were wont to compare the ingredients of beer to band...13th November 2015
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Suffolk Herring Festival 2015
A young woman in Great Yarmouth, taken during the herring harvest of 1932 Thanks to Cally Callomon for alerting us...13th October 2015
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Pint by the River: lager lager lager...
Words and pictures: Roger Clapham Almost twenty years ago, the British public did something they do less frequently these days,...31st August 2015
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Words on wort – diary of a fledgling homebrewer
By Ben McCormick 2: Here come the Belgians While spring spurs the creative spirit in homebrewers as it does in...20th April 2015
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Pint by the River: a springtime selection
Words and picture by Roger Clapham. At the risk of sounding like a half-arsed politician, it seems the fabled “green...14th April 2015
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Beer Advent Calendar
Thanks to the success of what was, quite frankly, the cheekiest Kickstarter campaign we’ve ever seen, the annual assault on...1st December 2014
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In Pursuit of Hoppiness
Being as close to a professional drinker as I think it’s possible to be these days (the only upgrades available...1st June 2014
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Pint by the River: Blackness…
by Roger Clapham It's complete darkness every morning when I get up these days, and similarly black when I come...17th January 2014
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Happy Apple Day
Today is Apple Day, a celebration - and clarion call - for one of the British Isles' most humble fruits....21st October 2013
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Port Eliot Festival - Save The Date
Festival season finished for us last weekend at No 6 in North Wales. Got to say we'll miss those weekends...21st September 2013
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Pint by the River: The simple pleasures of pale ale
By Roger Clapham Lately, I’m sorry to say that I’ve become incredibly bored by the craft brewer’s favourite beer, the...23rd May 2013